“Speaking in Parliament, Mr. Abe pledged to increase efforts to fight what he called mistaken views abroad concerning Japan’s wartime actions, when the Japanese military conquered much of Asia.”
Japanese government’s new budget includes a $5 million grant to Columbia University in New York to fund a position for a professor of Japanese politics and foreign policy, position presently occupied by Professor Gerald Curtis who is to retire this year.
In response to two petitions, one urging and the other opposing U.S. pronouncement over option of taking island dispute between South Korea and Japan to the ICJ, the White House “reiterated that it does not take a position regarding the dispute” (Kyodo)